Chu to cover China agriculture for Reuters

Mei Fong Chu

Reuters correspondent Mei Fong Chu has moved to Beijing to cover China agriculture.

She previously has been in Kuala Lumpur, covering Malaysia’s biggest export commodities, namely palm oil and oil and gas. She reported on markets and trends, followed the movements of major companies, and investigated the industry’s environmental, labor and human rights impact.

Chu was previously with Malaysia’s leading English daily The Star, where she covered some of Malaysia’s biggest local and international news events from the watershed 2018 polls to the plastic waste crisis.

She holds a bachelors degree from the University of South Australia.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.